Oubliette

112 pages

What happened to Haven Smith?
Connor Heyward doesn’t know — but he’s going to do whatever it takes to get her back.

Haven
They took me. Because I was an Offering who wasn’t Claimed yet, I was disposable — so when they took me, the Order let them.
I spent weeks in captivity, forced to do things that I never would have. All I wanted was to survive, and as the days passed and it seemed like no one was coming for me, I shut down. Breathing was all I could do, and even that was a struggle.
Talking? No.
Fighting back? I kept trying, but it only made things worse.
By the time they moved me to another facility, I was hopeless—and that’s when he appeared.
Connor Heyward, the boy I always wanted… and the man I’ve spent years avoiding.
He’s there, and he rescued me, but broken as I am, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to let him save me from the darkness of my own shattered mind.
But Connor… he’s not going to give me a choice. And, suddenly, I’m trading one captor for another.

Connor
I had no choice.
When Haven disappeared, I vowed to do whatever I could to find her again. She was the woman I always planned on making mine, whether the Order allowed it or not, and not even a drug-running cartel with no ties to Harmony Heights was going to stop me.
Haven was tough. She was stubborn. I knew she would make it through anything, and she did. She survived.
Well… at least part of her did.
Because when me and my brothers—my closest friends, my allies—found her in that dark cell, she was so traumatized that she barely responded when we broke in to save her.
Damn it, she couldn’t speak.
So I had to do it. I couldn’t bring her back to Harmony Heights and pass her over to those who never cared that she was gone. No. Haven Smith belongs to me, and I’ll bring her back no matter what.
I’ll make her love me, no matter what.
And nothing is going to stop me.
Not even Haven.

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